Noel Dyson

THE redevelopment of council’s Number 8 car park bounded by James, Lake and Roe Streets has finally begun.

COMMERCE and Trade Minister Hendy Cowan has led trade missions to Thailand and Malaysia to investigate a range of emerging trade opportunities.

WA EXPORTERS now have a representative in the increasingly lucrative Taiwanese market.

A FRANCHISOR promoting franchises for Year 2000 compliance software has been taken to court by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

THROUGH an alliance with the Royal Bank of Canada, WA-based stock broker Hartley Poynton Limited can now trade in AA+ and AAA-rated government and private bonds from amounts as little as $25,000.

A NEW business club, designed to make the most of international awareness of Australia thanks to the Sydney 2000 Olympics, is looking for members.

A WA-built plane has received airworthiness certificates from both the Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand and the US Federal Aviation Administration.

BEATING the Millennium bug is not the only thing needed to prepare for the next millennium, says Percy Institute of International Protocol principal Louise Percy.

HIGH yield shoppers are moving away from shopping centres and turning to strip shopping, a KPMG report has found.

AFTER five years of research and development, a Perth imaging company is on the verge of cornering the 3D television market.

FACED with a dying business sector and growing crime rate, the City of Gosnells has embarked on a $80 million revamp of Gosnells Town Centre.

DUE to Y2K concerns, there will be no trading or settlement on the Australian Stock Exchange on 31 December 1999.

DOMESTIC tourism is set to get a boost from an initiative encouraging Australians to holiday at home rather than choosing to travel overseas.

• COUNCILLOR Bert Tudori has been censured yet again, this time for disrupting a recent informal ‘briefing meeting’.

THANKS to a WA company, some South African villages will be connected to telephones for the first time.

WA EXPORTERS could benefit from the Asian emergence of giant super markets known as hypermarkets.

WESTPAC has entered the e-commerce arena with the launch of its eMarket online shopping directory.

DEVELOPERS beware. It appears simply meeting the Perth City Council’s legal planning requirements are no longer enough.

AN INTERNATIONAL program aimed at improving fraud prevention in the Asia Pacific region is being run out of Perth.

AFTER WA’s December quarter economic slump, experts agree the recovery is coming. They just cannot agree on when.

THE LOOSE Box Restaurant in Mundaring has been awarded Best Restaurant in WA at the 14th annual American Express WA Restaurant Awards held recently at Rendezvous Observ-ation City Hotel.

A new four-star accommodation property situated eight minutes from the centre of Bunbury opened on1 July.

WA AGRIBUSINESS Rural Traders Com-pany will merge with Peters & Brownes Foods Limited. The deal involves a $20 million transaction to be paid by the issue of 17.9 million shares in RTC Agribusiness and a payment of about $2.5 million cash.

TOP executives are paid too much, a recent survey has found.The Monster.com.au survey found 47 per cent of 1,183 respondents believed executives were overpaid.

THE Australian Securities and Investments Commis-sion’s implementation of the Managed Investments Act has been judged favourably by the managed investments industry.

THE South West’s latest tourist attraction, The Margaret River Chocolate Company, is now open for business.

WA TOURISTS in Bali are being pressured into buying timeshare property worth thousands of dollars, says Commissioner for Fair Trading Patrick Walker.

THE Association of Mining and Exploration Companies believes it has found a solution to the unemployment crisis facing geoscientists.

BGC received three high commendations in the recent Master Builders’ Excellence in Construction Awards.

A BUNBURY District Police plan to reduce crime against local businesses and improve information flow between business and police is to become a statewide program.

MINISTRY for Culture & the Arts director general Ricky Burges has assured the Perth City Council the Perth Theatre Trust did exist.

AD AGENCY JDA has won the first Lion to be awarded to a WA agency at the 1999 Cannes International Advertising Awards. The Keep Australia Beautiful Coun-cil commercial, featuring the devastating effect litter has on wildlife, won a bronze Lion.